No-How Generator_Graphic by Victoria Ford
September 2025
This month, Katye Coe and I are getting ready to travel to Stockholm in early October for a two-week series of workshops and performances of No-How Generator, thanks to support from Fylkingen, Uniarts and Dansalliansen. It was wonderful to begin the process of re-entering into this work through a residency and workshop at Wainsgate Dances in Yorkshire at the end of August.
I'm also happy to share a new piece of writing I've done about No-How Generator, just published in Choreographic Practices Journal, which gives a quick tour of my artistic doctoral body of research. You can find an open access version of the article here.
July saw the publication of the first major neuroscience results from the 5-year NEUROLIVE interdisciplinary research project, that I'm Artistic Director of. You can read the paper here, and listen to a podcast that NEUROLIVE Principal Investigator Guido Orgs and I did with Gemma Harman for her ResDance series - many thanks to Gemma for inviting us. I also spoke about NEUROLIVE at the Dance Research Matters Festival in Coventry in July.
Earlier this summer, we had the final public events of NEUROLIVE at Siobhan Davies Studios: a 5-day workshop (27-31 May), a 3-day symposium (2-4 June) and a lecture performance (3 June). Huge, heartfelt thanks to everyone who has been part of this 5-year journey with us, as artists, scientists, collaborators or audience members!
Earlier this year, it was really exciting to perform in Jules Cunningham's work Pigeons alongside an amazing group of collaborators, as part of the opening season of Sadler's Wells East on 27 & 28 March.
Thanks to everyone who came to the first performances of my new work Readings of what was never written last November, commissioned by NEUROLIVE. It was a total joy to be working with collaborators including dance artists Temitope Ajose, Ben Ash, Iris Chan and Katye Coe and sound artist Joel Cahen. You can read more about NEUROLIVE and this new performance in this Guardian article about dance and neuroscience and in this Dance Art Journal review of the performance.
I recently launched a new stand-alone website for No-How Generator, an online resource that shares the body of research that makes up my PhD, encompassing the choreographic work and the written thesis. The website uses the poem-like concluding words of my written thesis as a starting point for inviting you to unfurl the ideas and references that it weaves together. You can use the site to get a quick introduction to this body of research or, if you choose, you can dive deeper and spend longer with the full-length writing and choreographic work. I'd love for you to take a look! Huge thanks to Victoria Ford for designing the site, and to Midlands4Cities and De Montfort University for supporting me with the one-year part-time Postdoctoral Fellowship that has made it possible.
No-How Generator is a choreographic work and also my practice-based PhD. It had its London premiere at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio in 2022. I also talked about this work and shared some of the practice as part of the 3-day symposium Choreographic Devices at the ICA. You can read more about No-How Generator in this interview with Dance Art Journal.
I'm also excited to continue to be part of the creation of The Last Quartet, a new work by choreographer Seke Chimutengwende. The work is performed by Seke, Temitope Ajose, Charlie Ashwell and I, alongside live music from composer Jamie McCarthy, and will premiere at The Place (London) in 2026.
I’m slowly giving a long-overdue update to this site and have recently added info about my solo installation performance Loop Atlas for the first time - please have a look.
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Thanks for visiting and warm wishes,
Matthias